A Wife Who Reads Greek

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Ik Marvel (Donald G. Mitchell), Reveries of a Bachelor (1850; rpt. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889), p. 15:

She adores La Fontaine, reads Balzac with a kind of artist-scowl, and will not let Greek alone.

You hint at broken rest and an aching head at breakfast, and she will fling you a scrap of Anthology in lieu of the camphor-bottle, or chant the αἰαῖ, αἰαῖ, of tragic chorus.